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Self-driving cars are already here

Posted on Jun 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Southern California, like many parts of the country, has terrible traffic. With almost 13 million Californians driving alone into work...

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GM CEO Barra avoids driverless-taxi timeline in Cruise update

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in News, Trucks

General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra did not address the timeline for GM Cruise LLC’s plans to deploy a fleet of driverless taxis...

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Michelin announces trial test with driverless truck upstart

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in News, Trucks

Michelin announced Tuesday it has partnered with autonomous tech upstart Einride. Pierre Martin Heut, Michelin’s director of supply chain...

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Human drivers bullying self-driving cars: Unlawful or fair game?

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The official California DMV Driver Handbook provides prescribed driving practices that everyone is supposed to comply with while driving...

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Take the next step in automated driving with a comprehensive development tool

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Technology, Webinars

Software for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving represents a strong driver of innovation within the...

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The road to Level 5 autonomy is still a long way off

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Automakers are waking up to the realities of autonomous vehicles. In 2016, Ford said that it’d be mass producing vehicles capable of...

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Autonomous vehicle knowledge is key to acceptance: HNTB Survey

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, News, Reports, Trucks

More than half of Americans (52 percent) believe they are familiar with or knowledgeable about autonomous vehicles (also referred to as...

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Radar finds new place in self-driving technology

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Cars, Technology

On a mid-March afternoon, 3 inches of fresh snow blanketed M-14, a state highway in southeast Michigan. Lane markings were covered in a...

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SoftBank’s service to help power self-driving buses, farm machinery

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Buses, News, Technology

Japan’s SoftBank said on Monday it will launch a service this year that would use satellite navigation data and the telco’s...

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Radar sensor module to bring added safety to autonomous driving

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Cars, Technology

When a child runs out onto the road, the average human driver takes 1.6 seconds to hit the brake pedal. The reaction time is cut to 0.5...

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Cooperation and communication essential for consumer confidence in autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Until very recently, mobility has been a purely mechanical affair. The cogs and bolts that have underpinned and powered automobiles have,...

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Tesla Autopilot, at times unsafe for automatic lane changes, lays bare machine-learning brittleness

Posted on Jun 2, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

In my column of last Sunday, I analyzed a Tesla Autopilot incident involving a Tesla Model 3 that slammed into a stalled car on a highway,...

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Lyft and Aptiv have completed 50,000 self-driving car rides in Las Vegas

Posted on Jun 2, 2019 in Cars, News

For the last couple of years at CES, Lyft and Aptiv have made a big deal about offering rides in their self-driving BMWs. We’ve done...

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Lyft and Aptiv have completed 50,000 self-driving car rides in Las Vegas

Posted on Jun 2, 2019 in Editor’s Picks

For the last couple of years at CES, Lyft and Aptiv have made a big deal about offering rides in their self-driving BMWs. We’ve done it a...

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This is what it’s like to control an autonomous car from miles away

Posted on Jun 1, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

The exit ramp is a long, curving slope, and you have to make sure the 50-foot big rig you’re driving carefully navigates the bend...

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ProBeat: Apple’s Drive.ai acquisition proves nothing new

Posted on Jun 1, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

This week was another whirlwind in AI News. But one story particularly stood out to me: the collapse of self-driving car startup Dubai.ai....

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